Social media activists and other social groups in Iraq have started showing steadfast opposition to the next month trip by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to their country, calling on Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to withdraw the invitation.
The Iraqi people and activists have launched social media campaigns to oppose bin Salman's April visit to the country.
The social media activists...

Iraq's federal government has announced resumption of paying the salaries of Kurdish civil servants and Peshmerga security forces, which had been frozen in the wake of tensions between Baghdad government and Kurdish authorities over a non-binding Kurdish independence vote.
“The finance ministry of the central authorities has transferred the salaries of all the civil servants in Kurdistan, including the Peshmerga,” the...

Iraqi army troops have arrested two high-profile members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group near the country’s strategic northern city of Mosul as government forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Mobilization Units, continue to hunt for the remnants of the terror network.
Local police officer Captain Shakir al-Wandi said members of the 20th Brigade of the Army arrested self-proclaimed Daesh finance minister, identified as...

Deputy Chief Commander of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (Hashd al-Shaabi) Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes underlined that his forces have not received any weapons and military equipment from the US-led coalition.
"The (US-led) international coalition has not supplied us with even a single bullet since 2014," al-Muhandes was quoted as saying by the Arabic-language Soumeriyeh news on Sunday.
He, meantime, lauded Iran for its...

Maxim Hoshar, a French national and the notorious head-chopper of the ISIL terrorist group, has reportedly been killed, Iraqi sources reported on Sunday, but said there is no further details about the incident.
The Arabic-language al-Sumeriyeh news quoted the Iraqi sources as saying that 27-year-old Maxim Hoshar, nom de guerre Abu Abdullah, has been killed.
It further said that the French who...

Iraqi forces have captured a fugitive Daesh ringleader, who used to hold a “prominent” post within the Takfiri terror group.
Reporting on Saturday, Iraqi News website said the terror kingpin was captured in the al-Shaiqara village, north of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the capital of Nineveh Province.
The terrorist leader used to function as the Takfiri group’s “police chief” for Nineveh, collecting the...

Iraqi Kurds are marking 30 years since a chemical attack by the former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, on the town of Halabja. Halabja, a city located near Iran’s western border, was bombed on March 16, 1988 during the final days of Iraq’s war against Iran. Around 5,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the deadly attack, which also left around...

Remains of four Iranian soldiers' bodies were unearthed in eastern Iraq near the border with Iran, said an Iraqi authority.
Iranian search team could find bodies of four soldiers who were killed during Iraqi invasion of Iran, said Heidar al-Mandelavi.
He said that the Iranian search team will continue to look for other bodies in the area near the Iranian border.
He added...

Iraqi forces have captured a fugitive Daesh ringleader, who used to hold a “prominent” post within the Takfiri terror group.
Reporting on Saturday, Iraqi News website said the terror kingpin was captured in the al-Shaiqara village, north of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the capital of Nineveh Province.
The terrorist leader used to function as the Takfiri group’s “police chief” for Nineveh, collecting the...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi welcomed a decision from soccer’s world governing body FIFA to lift a ban on hosting competitive international soccer matches at stadiums in three Iraqi cities.
Abadi congratulated the Iraqi people and the sports public on the lifting of the ban, which he said in a statement was the result of the “security and stability” of the...